Owner Mike Ilitch passed away before the start of the 2017 season, without seeing his dream of the Tigers winning the World Series again come to fruition. Control of the team passed to his son, Chris Ilitch.

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Patrick Harrigan: The Detroit Tigers: Club and Community, 1945-1995, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON, 1997.

Herm Krabbenhoft: "Fascinating Aspects About the Retired Uniform Numbers of the Detroit Tigers", in The National Pastime - A Review of Baseball History, Society for American Baseball Research, Cleveland, OH, number 26 (May, 2006), pp. 77-84.